Does Yoga Help You Do Your Job Better? Here’s What You Said

A week or so ago before we posted an informal poll on twitter and facebook and asked, Does yoga help you do your job better? How? Since we’ve seen articles touting boosts in productivity, and there are so many lists telling you the top 10 reasons why this…, 5 ways to be that…blah blah yadda yadda, and we thought we’d post the answers and reasons we heard from YOU.

In order to respect privacy we kept authors names off, but if you’d like to add yours please let us know.

Did we miss yours? Please share in the comments and then pass this post around to all your yoga and especially your non-yoga friends!

Does Yoga Help You Do Your Job Better?

Going to work is like me on my mat: breath & focus

Yoga has taught me to listen more deeply in class and to view each student with compassion. I solve my writing problems on my mat.

Yoga has helped me accept where I am ‘in the moment’ and allowed me to envision where I can go.

Yoga has helped me bridge the gap between physical and emotional well being. Through exploration of my body I’ve found my spirit.

Yoga is a godsend. Sometimes life is too fucking hard and yoga helps me cope with #ChronicPain and the stress that comes with it.

Yoga helps me to keep it all in perspective, to listen better and to allow others to work in their own ways. I am more compassionate because of my practice and that has an effect on me personally & professionally.

Yoga helps me keep calm at work and, as katharine said, to listen better to my coworkers. It helps me to lengthen the time between input and my reaction. I am better able to let go of unimportant things.

It also helps me maintain good posture when sitting in a desk chair all day. My back would be a mess without my asana practice.